{"id":141,"date":"2008-07-08T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T04:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.wordpress.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-07-08T23:57:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T04:57:30","slug":"two-flash-donnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/two-flash-donnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Flash Donnie"},"content":{"rendered":"

My well-used Nikon SB26 flash<\/a> came via UPS today and I was pretty pumped. In the Strobist<\/a> world the 26 is just about the be-all, end-all of flashes. It’s almost 15-year-old technology, but it has a built-in optical slave that fires when it detects the light from another flash. Unfortunately, the Strobist craze has driven up the price on these babies. I almost opted for buying the current generation SB600<\/a>, but the 26 was $75 cheaper and the 600 won’t fire wirelessly with my D40<\/a> camera. The little pop-up flash on the camera will fire the 26 if I don’t want to use the big Vivitar. The 26 won’t do the fancy through-the-lens-exposure control that tells the flash when to stop putting out light when the right exposure is reached, but I want it for manual use anyway. I dusted off old Abe and fired light at him from two sides.<\/p>\n

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Now I can get on Flickr<\/a> and say things like: Vivitar 285HV<\/a> into a silver 43″ umbrella on 1\/4 power camera right with a snooted SB26 at 1\/64 camera left and little behind model for hair light and a white card at lower camera left for fill on model’s face. 285 fired via poverty wizard with 26 slaved.<\/p>\n

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SB26 at 1\/8 power zoomed out to 24mm at Abe’s 6 (that’s some Top Gun<\/a> talk) for backlighting with Vivitar 285HV into a silver 43″ umbrella on 1\/4 power camera right.<\/p>\n

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This one is for the a strobist exercise on restricting light. I shot the 26 through a small ficus tree to create the shadow on the wall and the usual Vivitar 285HV into a silver 43″ umbrella on camera right.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a set-up shot in my ghetto studio.<\/p>\n

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And finally, here’s Abby getting in on the action. Today she turned her first non-wind-aided somersault<\/a>. The one in the pic is probably her fourth somersault. She hit the wall. Vivitar 285HV into a silver 43″ umbrella on 1\/2 power camera right and the SB26 on 1\/32 power camera left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My well-used Nikon SB26 flash came via UPS today and I was pretty pumped. In the Strobist world the 26 is just about the be-all, end-all of flashes. It’s almost 15-year-old technology, but it has a built-in optical slave that fires when it detects the light from another flash. Unfortunately, the Strobist craze has driven …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abe-lincoln-bust","category-adventures-in-strobistry","category-photography","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}